Minibooks

Application performance management (APM) is an essential solution alleviating some of that complexity. Today, businesses are using APM to connect app performance and the customer experience to business outcomes. APM tracks the behavior of components, …

Across a variety of large, global companies, DevOps teams are adopting containers and microservices, two of many new tools and practices that are offering solid business benefits. Developers use containers and microservices in many tasks, from app de …

One of the key benefits of using open source testing tools is having the flexibility of customizing them for unique use cases and complementing them to meet special app testing requirements. There are plenty of examples on the market where organizati …

You’re thinking of building a mobile app or perhaps you’ve already built one; depending on the approach you’ve taken, it could be a web app1, a native app2, or both. Mobile devices complicate testing further. An app that runs on one device might not …

Apache ActiveMQ is an open source message broker written in Java together with a full Java Message Service (JMS) client. It provides “Enterprise Features” which in this case means fostering the communication from more than one client or server. Suppo …

Nginx is an open source HTTP and reverse proxy server, as well as a mail proxy server, load balancer, and HTTP cache. The nginx project started with a strong focus on high concurrency, high performance and low memory usage. It runs on Linux, BSD vari …

The Apache HTTP Server, colloquially called Apache, is the world’s most used web server software. Originally based on the NCSA HTTPd server, development of Apache began in early 1995 after work on the NCSA code stalled. Apache played a key role in th …

Oracle VM VirtualBox is a free and open-source hypervisor for x86 computers from Oracle Corporation. VirtualBox may be installed on a number of host operating systems, including: Linux, OS X, Windows, Solaris, and OpenSolaris. There are also ports to …

Nagios, now known as Nagios Core, is a free and open source computer-software application that monitors systems, networks and infrastructure. Nagios offers monitoring and alerting services for servers, switches, applications and services. It alerts u …